Ok, the latest "arrivals" on the homestead are 2 hedgehogs that my darling daughter just had to have for her birthday. Then a few days later, we pick up a puppy in the road that seems to have been "put out." Today, darling daughter goes to a church thing with a friend, and wins the "catch a greased piggy" contest there, and the prize? A chicken...

Darling daughter is an "animal magnet," who would rather be outside, than in. She's probably also, the only person I know who can go through 3 fantastic shopping malls all in one day and come home with NOTHING. Not one thing did she buy. She had plenty of money to "shop" but said she really didn't see anything she wanted. Incredible...wish I was more like that!